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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2010 August 26
- A Redshift for the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate HLX-1: Confirmation of its Association with the Galaxy ESO 243-49.
Klaas Wiersema (1), Sean A. Farrell (1), Natalie A. Webb (2,3), Mathieu Servillat (4), Thomas J. Maccarone (5), Didier Barret (2,3), Olivier Godet (2,3) ((1) University of Leicester, UK, (2) CESR, France, (3) CNRS, France, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA, (5) University of Southampton, UK)
arXiv:1008.4125v1
- Pre-discovery and Follow-up Observations of the Nearby SN 2009nr: Implications for Prompt Type Ia SNe.
Rubab Khan, J. L. Prieto, G. Pojmanski, K. Z. Stanek, J. F. Beacom, D. M. Szczygiel, B. Pilecki, K. Mogren, J. D. Eastman, P. Martini, R. Stoll
arXiv:1008.4126v1
- On Sizes, Kinematics, M/L Gradients, and Light Profiles of Massive Compact Galaxies at z~2.
Stijn Wuyts, Thomas J. Cox, Christopher C. Hayward, Marijn Franx, Lars Hernquist, Philip F. Hopkins, Patrik Jonsson, Pieter G. van Dokkum
arXiv:1008.4127v1
- Spectroscopic Signatures of the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes.
Linda E. Strubbe, Eliot Quataert
arXiv:1008.4131v1
- Testing models for molecular gas formation in galaxies: hydrostatic pressure or gas and dust shielding?.
Michele Fumagalli, Mark R. Krumholz, Leslie K. Hunt
arXiv:1008.4137v1
- A Tidal Disruption Flare in Abell 1689 from an Archival X-ray Survey of Galaxy Clusters.
Peter Maksym (1), Melville P. Ulmer (1), Michael Eracleous (2) ((1) Northwestern U., (2) Penn State)
arXiv:1008.4140v1
- LHS6343C: A Transiting Field Brown Dwarf Discovered by the Kepler Mission.
John Asher Johnson, Kevin Apps, J. Zachary Gazak, Justin Crepp, Ian J. Crossfield, Andrew W. Howard, Geoff W. Marcy, Timothy D. Morton, Carly Chubak, Howard Isaacson
arXiv:1008.4141v1
- Inferring the eccentricity distribution.
David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA), Adam D. Myers (UIUC, MPIA), Jo Bovy (NYU)
arXiv:1008.4146v1
- Observational biases in determining extrasolar planet eccentricities in single-planet systems.
Nadia L. Zakamska (1), Margaret Pan (1,2), Eric B. Ford (3) ((1) IAS, (2) UCBerkeley, (3) UFlorida)
arXiv:1008.4152v1
- The Origin and Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation using GalICS.
Jeremy Sakstein, Antonio Pipino, Julien Devriendt, Roberto Maiolino
arXiv:1008.4158v1
- Parameters of the Local Warp of the Stellar-Gaseous Galactic Disk from the Kinematics of Tycho-2 Nearby Red Giant Clump Stars.
Vadim V. Bobylev
arXiv:1008.4208v1
- Galactic outflows and the kinematics of damped Lyman alpha absorbers.
Sungryong Hong (UMass), Neal Katz (UMass), Romeel Davé (Arizona), Mark Fardal (UMass), Dušan Kereš (Berkeley), Benjamin D. Oppenheimer (Leiden)
arXiv:1008.4242v1
- Effect of episodic accretion on the structure and the lithium depletion of low-mass stars and planet-hosting stars.
Isabelle Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier
arXiv:1008.4288v1
- MML 53: a new low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary in the Upper Centarus-Lupus Region discovered by SuperWASP.
L. Hebb, H.C. Stempels, S. Aigrain, A. Collier-Cameron, S.T. Hodgkin, J.M. Irwin, P.F.L. Maxted, D. Pollacco, R.A. Street, D.M. Wilson, K.G. Stassun
arXiv:1008.4312v1
- A Widely-Separated, Highly-Occluded Companion to the Nearby Low-Mass T Tauri Star TWA 30.
Dagny L. Looper, John J. Bochanski, Adam J. Burgasser, Subhanjoy Mohanty, Eric E. Mamajek, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Andrew A. West, Mark A. Pitts
arXiv:1008.4340v1
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